Transporting device for wire rods.



E. AYERS.

TRANSPORTING DEVICE FOR WIRE RODS.

' APPLICATION FILED nov. 4, 1912.

1,053,707," Patented Apr. 15,1913,

UNITED STA ES PATENT OFFICE.

.ELM'ER AYERS, or ASHLAND, KENTUCKY.

TRANsPoRTINo DEVICE FpR wIRE Robs.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 4, 1912. Serial No. 729,345.

embrace wire rods into rigid gripping en-- gagement during their process of manufacture.

More specifically, it is the practice to dip theserods' into difierent. vats containing chemicals that act upon'the rods to prepare them for'use and this dipping process has been found diflicult without resorting to the use of a transporting device of some character. v

rods, and this latch member preferably takes the formof an embracing member pivotally mounted upon the gripping members and engaging with the under surface of the main beam. a

The preferred embodiment of my invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which similar characters of reference designate corresponding parts, and in which: Figure l is a side elevation of my transporting device showing one of the gripping members locked in its operative position and the other shown as being released. Fig. 2

is a plan view of the structure shown in Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is an end view of the structure shown in Fig. 1.

In the drawings,-I have shown a main" supporting beam 1 provided with a connecting device 1 for the ready attachment of a rope chain, which would be preferably operated by a crane disposed above the vats into which the rods are to be dipped. Pivotally supported as at 2 and 3 on the main beam 1, are substantially'Z-shaped gripping members 4 and 5 having their embracinglegs 6 and 7 in substantial parallelism with the main beam 1 when in operative position.

Carried at any desiredpoint upon the gripping members are handleelements 8 and 9 to permit manipulation of the, gripping elements without coming into actual contact w th their working surfaces. The up 1' ends .of the gripping members are pre erably bifurcated to embrace the main beam 1 and their short legs are preferably provided with substantially U-shaped latch ele:

I ments 10 and 11 pivoted as at 12 and 13 and these latch elements are further provided with operating handles 14 and 15.

It will be noted that the pivotal connections 2 and 3 and 12 and 13 are made detachable by resorting to the use of bolt and nut structures and in this manner, the breaking of any one-part will. not require the substitution of a-n-entirely new structure. The wire rods are embraced by the pivoted gripping members 4 and. 5 and these gripping members are then looked in position by a swinging of the latch elements into the posit-ion indicated to the right of Fig. 1, in which the downward pressure. caused, by the weight of the wire rods upon the lower horizontal arms 6 and 7 tends to cause the short arms to move in an upward direction. This latter movement is resisted by the engagement of the latch elements and 15 and moving the latch elements into the positions shown to the left of Fig. 1.

It will thus be noted that I have provided extremely simple means for accomplishing the objects of the invention.

What I claim, is:

1. A wire rod transportin device comprising a main beam, substantially Z-shaped gripping members pivot-ally supported at opposite ends of said beam, and a latch member pivotally carried by. one of the legs of each of said gripping members at a point opposite their pivotal connection and adapted to engage the under surface of said beam when in locked position.

. 2. A wire rod transpprtmg device' com Patented Apr. 15,1913.

eeegm prising a main beznm substantially Iii-Shaped age the under surface of said beam when (r gripping members bifurcated at 'i1heiruppel' 1n operative position. 10' ends to embrace sald beam, plvoiel cennec- In tes tunony whereof I aifix my slgnature 'tions between said bifurcated por'iiens and in presence of two Witnesses.

said beam, a latch pivotally partied by each of said members at a point opposite the "Witnesses: mainpivotal connections and embracing said '12 M. ADAMS, main beam, said. leeches being adapied t0 enl R. G. RICHARDSON.

ELMER AYERS. 

